One of the greatest joys of teaching at Paul Smith’s College over the last few years has been to learn my way through the emerging field of Environmental Humanities. Many of you know how much authors like Dante, Chaucer, Galileo, Shelly, Dario, and more have molded and shaped my musical life. The increasing urgency of…
SUNY Oneonta is excited to welcome Glenn McClure as their Artist-in-Residence, a pioneer in Audio Arts and environmental consciousness. His project, “The Water is Me,” uses Data Sonification to convert water sound data into immersive soundscapes, highlighting the importance of environmental protection. McClure’s work bridges the gap between data and emotion, encouraging a deeper community…
Glenn will be giving the Keynote at 10AM on April 5, 2024. “Growing Bigger in the Bigness of the Whole, When Nature Goes Beyond our Control” – Join in person or on the zoom! About the Conference The Totality Conference offers an opportunity to contemplate the meaning of the eclipse from as many perspectives as…
Join us for an exploration of the Hunger Stones that carve centuries of the low and high water marks along the Elbe River. Composer Glenn McClure, working with Czech hydrologist Libor Elledor, has composed music that rises from centuries of climate data. Glenn will share the story of the Hunger Stones and his creative process…
Performance on January 20, 2024 by fivebyfive at the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester, NY.
The melodic content of “Totality” is drawn from the sonification of “duration” data that shows the varying time intervals of totality during an eclipse at selected locations along its path. Sonification is the mathematical translation of numerical data points into musical pitches and rhythms. This melody, drawn from the data describing its path, provides the unifying motifs that recur throughout the piece.